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Why you want to split user stories

February 22, 2018 by Kent McDonald

Last week I shared what you ought to know about user stories. In that post, I shared an example of stories for creating a membership site. George Dinwiddie called me out on my choice of using create, read, update, and delete stories as an example. He’s right. Ideally we want user stories to reflect what …

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What You Ought to Know about Writing User Stories

February 15, 2018 by Kent McDonald

Stories get their name from how they should be used, not what should be written. – Jeff Patton If we get together and talk about the problem we’re solving with software, who’ll use it, and why, then together we can arrive at a solution, and build shared understanding along the way. – Kent Beck It’s …

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How to describe user stories to build shared understanding

October 18, 2017 by Kent McDonald

A question that I see often is: How do you (Should you | Can you) use user stories to properly document requirements for a product? There are some people nodding in agreement “yes, I’ve often wondered that myself.” There are others who are cringing. User stories weren’t intended to be requirements. Kent Beck originally came …

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Ten Powerful Questions for Discovering Acceptance Criteria

July 15, 2015 by Kent McDonald

A friend of mine is an agile coach for a large software product company. When she coaches teams, product owners, and managers she stresses that teams need to feel ownership for their work. She likes to teach product owners and other leaders to lead through the use of questions, and has compiled a list of …

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